Women in classical Islamic law : a survey of the sources / by Susan A. Spectorsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spectorsky, Susan A. (Susan Ann)

Series:

Themes in Islamic studies ; v. 5.

Themes in Islamic studies ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women (Islamic law).

Women--History--Sources.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 223 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing on legal and ḥadīth texts from the formative and classical periods of Islamic legal history, this book offers an overview of the development of the questions prominent jurists asked and answered about women’s issues. All assumed a woman would marry and thus the book concentrates on women’s family life. The introduction establishes the historical framework within which the jurists worked. A chapter on Qurʾān verses devoted to women’s lives is followed by chapters on marriage and divorce which compare the views of jurists during the formative period. The fourth chapter describes the evolution from the formative to the classical periods. The fifth uses material from both periods to describe the array of legal opinion about other aspects of women’s lives in and outside their homes. Throughout, jurists’ opinions are juxtaposed with relevant quotations from contemporaneous ḥadīth collections.

Contents:

Women in the Qur'aan

Marriage in the formative period

Divorce in the formative period

From the formative to the classical periods

Women's lives.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-282-78630-X

9786612786303

90-474-2781-5

OCLC:

669127131

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004174351.i-217 DOI